Re: Seeking pre-LCWD comments for Indexed Database API; deadline February 2

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Pablo Castro
<Pablo.Castro@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Kris Zyp [mailto:kris@sitepen.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Seeking pre-LCWD comments for Indexed Database API; deadline February 2
>
>>> On 6/10/2010 4:15 PM, Pablo Castro wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>> From: public-webapps-request@w3.org
>>> >>> [mailto:public-webapps-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Kris Zyp
>>> >>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Seeking
>>> >>> pre-LCWD comments for Indexed Database API; deadline February
>>> >>> 2
>>> >
>>> >>> I see that in the trunk version of the spec [1] that delete()
>>> >>> was changed to remove(). I thought we had established that
>>> >>> there is no reason to make this change. Is anyone seriously
>>> >>> expecting to have an implementation prior to or without ES5's
>>> >>> contextually unreserved keywords? I would greatly prefer
>>> >>> delete(), as it is much more consistent with standard DB and
>>> >>> REST terminology.
>>> >
>>> > My concern is that it seems like taking an unnecessary risk. I
>>> > understand the familiarity aspect (and I like delete() better as
>>> > well), but to me that's not a strong enough reason to use it and
>>> > potentially cause trouble in some browser.
>>> >
>>> So there is a real likelyhood of a browser implementation that will
>>> predate it's associated JS engine's upgrade to ES5? Feeling a
>>> "concern" isn't really much of technical argument on it's own, and
>>> designing for outdated technology is a poor approach.
>
> I don't think there is, just wanted to avoid imposing it. If you think it's really important then let's change it back to delete assuming other folks are good with it.

I just checked with our JS team and we'll implement enough of ES5 in
Firefox 4 that this won't be a problem for us.

/ Jonas

Received on Friday, 11 June 2010 22:13:43 UTC